Word: assignable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind a film camera is a man to be held responsible. Film, of course, is a collaborative medium, and a popular one, and its most interesting aspects usually range over nations and eras and industry trends rather than the small detail of a well-shot sequence. But once you assign responsibility to a director, label him an artist, propagandist, or hack, you can deal with issues mixed with flesh and blood, making for more than a lively read: a critic tries to guide the intelligent subject, or scourge the dolt. One of the best traditions James Agee set was bringing...
Epps also requested "a list of appropriate marshals and a plan for maintaining good order" at the convention. He said that Bonnie Blustein '72--the SDS member designated by the group to assign marshals--was unacceptable because she is currently under a suspended requirement to withdraw from the College by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
Nursery Duty. Most hospital administrators who have tried self-help programs are pleased with the results. Officials at the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say that the system allows them to assign more registered nurses to the seriously ill. The reduced number of nurses in self-help spend much of their time teaching patients how to take care of themselves at home...
Would the nation pay heed to such an opposition encampment? It is inconceivable that the television networks, newspapers and magazines would not assign men to the shadow. There could be one or two press briefings a day, similar to those in the functioning White House. Thus Walter Cronkite could have a film clip on what went on in the aspirant's Administration for his evening newscast. Shadow Cabinet officers could debate their opposite numbers in office, or counter White House claims of benefit or progress...
Tate's artistic demands on himself are even more stringent than his social demands. His early training was rigorous. "In his Advanced Composition class. Mr. Ransom would assign all of Shakespeare's sonnets for us to study," Tate remembers. "Then we'd have to write a Shakespearean sonnet of our own, then an Italian sonnet...